chmod & chown don't work

From: Cheng Hong (hcheng_at_psl.com.sg)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:39:24 +0800

Hi all,

Recently, I successfully mounted the FAT32 partition to my FreeBSD5.3 box.
Now, the problem is that I can only work on it as root. The directory
created cannot be changed to allow other user's access. Anyone has
experience on this?

thanks

cheng

The screen copy of the message is as following:

====================
DELL# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da1s1a 23698052 3107876 18694332 14% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
/dev/da1s5 7159000 20 7158980 0% /winwork
/dev/da0s1 10482380 8328644 2153736 79% /winboot
/dev/da0s5 25069400 22295808 2773592 89% /winpro
DELL# cd /winwork
DELL# ls -al
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 31 1979 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 512 Dec 29 14:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 30 14:14 notebook
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 30 14:12 temp
DELL# chmod -R a+rwx notebook
DELL# ls
notebook temp
DELL# ls -al
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 31 1979 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 512 Dec 29 14:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 30 14:14 notebook
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 30 14:12 temp
DELL# chown hcheng notebook
chown: notebook: Invalid argument
DELL# chown -R hcheng notebook
chown: notebook: Invalid argument
DELL# cd notebook
DELL# mkdir try
DELL# ls
try
DELL# rmdir try
DELL# ls
DELL# su hcheng
$ mkdir try
mkdir: try: Permission denied
$ ls
$ uname -a
FreeBSD dell.xxx.com.sg 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Dec 22
10:55:05 SGT 2004 root@dell.xxx.com.sg:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP
i386
$

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